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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Bill Ackman's Big Short of Herbalife
Vandebroek, Tom; Ferraro, Fabrizio; Simon, JanCase SM-1611-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Finance, StrategyThis case describes how hedge fund activist Bill Ackman took a $1 billion short position on the shares of the nutrition company Herbalife. Ackman is convinced that Herbalife's business model is essentially a pyramid scheme, rendering it unsustainable as well as illegal. The case describes his arguments and the evidence he builds on. Other hedge fund titans soon took the opposite position on Herbalife, possibly because they fundamentally disagree ...Starting at €8.20
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Starship SpaceX: The Disruption in the Space Value Chain
Jané, Joan; Guitard, BlancaCase OIT-11-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementSpaceX was established in 2002 to fulfill founder, CEO and chief engineer Ellon Musk's heady plan to colonize Mars. Starship aimed to be a "Mars colonial transporter" or, more formally, an "interplanetary transport system" both in ease of access and affordability, and designed to be "aircraft-like" from the specification and operational standpoints to maximize the vehicle's utilization rate of launching kilotons of payloads into orbit per year. S...Starting at €8.20
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Starship SpaceX: La disrupción en la cadena de valor del espacio
Jané, Joan; Guitard, BlancaCase OIT-11Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementSpaceX fue constituida en 2002 con el fin de hacer realidad el ambicioso plan para colonizar Marte de Elon Musk, su fundador, CEO e ingeniero jefe Elon Musk. El Starship, que aspiraba a ser un "transportador colonial de Marte" o, en una definición más formal, un "sistema de transporte interplanetario" tanto en facilidad de acceso como asequibilidad, estaba diseñado para ser "como un avión" desde los puntos de vista especificacional y operacional....Starting at €8.20